Ok, so the first aspect of modernism is the desire to conquer and control. Now this has played out in a variety of negative ways, from the destruction of indigenous peoples, slavery, extinctions of animal and plant life, etc…
Within Christianity, this tendency played itself out in several negative ways:
1) Missionary endevours often meant conversion [...]
1) Modernity is the Age of Control and Conquest.
From 1492 and the conquest of the new world to now, modernity has been a time of conquering the whole world with western thought, philosophy, language, economies, religion and technology. Nature and native peoples were conquered, along with a thousand problems (”from bad breath to syphilis”*). [...]
Here’s what this blog is all about. For a long time, a lot of Christians, myself included have been feeling somewhat alienated from the traditional church. This is not because the traditional church is neccessarily wrong (because on most things they aren’t) or evil or something (because they aren’t). No, [...]
